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Yet you participate in society.jpeg
I'll bet you wouldn't be "yet you participate in society"ing all but maybe a small handful of exceptions for self-described leftists who remain on Twitter, so I'm not sure why you're doing it here. I mean – just a hunch – I do: you probably have this exact misalignment between leftist values and leftist beliefs and actions, and so you're trying to justify it through learned helplessness and comparing it to parts of society that basically aren't possible to opt out of. Again, of course, that doesn't make you not a leftist.
But this isn't even that. Like I said, it's not just participating in animal agriculture but doing so basically unquestioningly. Often at most it'll be "boy, factory farms sure are the problem here and not the system as a whole". That's why I not only asked what they ate but what their opinion on it is.
That's a lot of bullshit assumptions you utter about a stranger on the internet.
So what are your actual beliefs? Tell me I wasn't just dead-on about the dime-a-dozen leftist perspective on veganism as something separate from leftism or, at best, as an act of radical environmentalism that one can take or leave because it's basically fungible to any other act of environmentalism.
Or was the bullshit assumption the one I'd made about Twitter? That you wouldn't gatekeep leftism based on whether people participate on a neo-Nazi social media website? There may be sensible exceptions, but that's where things start to break down for me, personally.
Geez. Buy me a drink first, before you want my life story. /s
Will do: you weren't dead-on.
Of course anarchism includes critique of consuming animal products. But that doesn't mean that a boycott is the correct strategy, let alone bullying others to partake in the boycott. Also: the way you phrased it was just whataboutism.
I'm not here to gatekeep. Just want clarity in political terms.